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Haleigh's stepmom talks on national TV

Misty Croslin-Cummings: 'I feel like it's on the other side of the family that has her'

Cindy Swirko Staff writer
Misty Croslin and now-husband Ronald Cummings, the father of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings.

The stepmother of missing Putnam County girl Haleigh Cummings said in a national television interview Friday that she believes other family members have not been as closely scrutinized as she has and that stress - not suspicion - is behind her likely divorce.

Misty Croslin-Cummings, 18, was a guest on the CBS "Early Show" and again proclaimed her innocence.

"Someone came in and got her, obviously," she said. "I feel like it's on the other side of the family that has her. That's just how I feel. I don't think (investigators) have looked at everyone as close as they have me."

Croslin-Cummings is the stepmother of Haleigh, the then-5-year-old girl who disappeared from their Satsuma home in February. Croslin-Cummings - then the girlfriend and now the wife of Haleigh's father, Ronald Cummings - has said she was at the home at the time the child vanished, according to the Putnam County Sheriff's Office. She has said in interviews that she awoke to find the girl missing.

Dressed in a shirt with a large photo of Haleigh, Croslin-Cummings said Friday her likely divorce from Ronald Cummings is due to the stress of the situation.

"(Ronald Cummings) thinks it's just too much pressure on us right now," she said. "I don't think he believes I'm guilty. He hasn't said much about it. He believes me. He doesn't think I had anything to do with it."

Putnam County Sheriff's Lt. Johnny Greenwood said Friday that the department will not comment on statements made to the media by those involved in the case.